Muriel Belcher Quotes

#1. Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.

Epictetus

#2. You wasn't made like watch-dogs and house-cats and cows. You was made a fox, and you be a fox, and its queer-like to me, Foxy, as folk canna see that. They expect you to be what you wanna made to be. You'm made to be a fox; and when you'm busy being a fox they say you'm a sinner!

Mary Webb

#3. There are real threats but there's a difference between recognizing real threats and an irrational kind of apocalyptic threat.

Peter Beinart

#4. May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the some on't.

Charles Lamb

#5. What do women want? To be treated like a queen;
but by a king, not a pawn.

James Robison

#6. It means you have until graduation to make her yours. After that, I'm doing all I can to make her mine, and I won't quit until I do, brother.

N.E. Henderson

#7. The short answer to 'Why do you write' is - I suppose I write for some of the same reasons I read: to live a double life; to go places I haven't been; to examine life on earth; to come to know people in ways, and at depths, that are otherwise impossible; to be surprised.

Margaret Atwood

#8. Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.

Kenneth Clarke

#9. The only measure of your success is in the number of people you have help.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#10. I've never believed in singing about Satan and thinking he's cool, because he's not.

Dave Mustaine

#11. How do I relax? Meditate, I guess. I quit golf. You twist your back and get all cranked up.

Nick Nolte

#12. Don't write about what you know - write about what you're interested in. Don't write about yourself - you aren't as interesting as you think.

Tracy Chevalier

#13. Russia. I speak not only to fathers here, but to all fathers I cry out: 'Fathers, provoke not your children!' Let us first fulfill Christ's commandment ourselves, and only then let us expect the same of our children.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky